I was on market.android.com the other day, browsing around… and I noticed my list of downloaded “installed” applications for my google account includes some apps that I have not had installed in a long time, even since my last phone. The market thinks they are still installed…
The only thing I could accredit this anomaly to would be the fact that since carrier IQ is disabled they have no idea what I am doing with these apps after I download them, so their systems assume they are still installed.
Anybody else want to verify seeing the same thing? You have to check from your browser.
Also, just to verify, I tried manually installing one from the site and it didn’t allow me because “application is already installed on your device” lol
It's not carrier IQ doing that, I've had that problem since the launch of the Market website with the OG EVO.
Google Needs to fix the Market's web syncing.
Fail sauce
um... you sure you didnt just use the same email... please don't tell me its that much fail sauce.
First of all, my Photon is rooted and I used a couple of the updates from the photon android development forums.
It is getting to where there are just too many market apps that I can not download. Some come up as not compatable (while I'm 100% sure they are compatable) and others just straight up don't show. It gets real interesting when I go to the android market on the web and try to get the apps.
The android market thinks that I have 2 Moto photons. One of the 2 photons, it will in fact allow me to send some of these incompatable apps to and the one that google SEES me on is "not compatable". I guess the market thinks my phone became a new phone when I did one of the updates. But yet this new photon is not compatable with many apps.
I was using my Acer Iconia tab to help me get some of these apps to my Photon, especially some of the ones I purchased. But now, I have 2 Iconia tabs too (even though the second one is again, the same device.)
Is there anything I can do? I loved Android since the day it came out. But it's getting to where I almost don't want it. I need an outlet to get apps but I don't want to ask people to upload apks. I know about the amazon market but not every app is there.
Is this a brand based problem? Cause though I love the Photon, I would switch in a minute if this wasn't the case. But it's also happening on my Iconia tab and it's happening more and more and one thing I just won't do is start asking if anyone has apks.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
OK, this will take me a minute (if you want a real explantion, or just skip to bottom where I talk about App Brain). I am sorta like you, I'm well over 100 Apps and use SPB 3D Shell to keep them orgainzed.
As for usage:
My Music
My Radio
Pandora
YouTube
Work Adobe
Work Excel
Work PPP
Adobe (Work, IBM, Personal)
10 years of tax returns
Military Documents
Collget transcripts
High School Documents
Stocks
Investments...............
I use my phones and like to keep them tight. I had and Evo and co-worker turned me on to App Brain.When I got Photon, I was in your position. I went to Market and more or less, installed everything I got individually.
You Sync App Brain, and when you get new phone, like I just did, tell it to put it all back (You still have to go to SPB 3D Shell and orgainze it, but it give you a start!)
Want more protection? Root it and get Titaniaum Backup, paid version!!! Backup all your crap each monday at 3:00AM (you know my schedule now), hook the phone up to computer as HD and move backup to your computer or USB drive (its not small!). If something ever happens to your phone, get titaniaum from market and use THAT backup to restore. The good thing about the paid version, not only will it put your app's back, it puts them back with the last configuration!!! Done!!!
Thank you for responding. But I do not believe that this helps. I already use Titanium Backup of course. But App Brain is just a market browser that still ultimately takes you to the market to download apps does it not? And the market will still list them as incompatable.
This is not going to let me download new versions of, for example, Swiftkey X, LCD Density, and even the ChaCha app. I would have to go find a friend who has a phone that's listed as compatible (even though the Photon IS compatible) and then back it up and transfer it. This makes for licensing problems for apps that I have purchased and I'm certain are compatable.
Because I can get many apps but there are many that I can not get, there is something that many developers do that apparently makes it compable with SOME Motorola Photons as far as the market goes. This is why I could easily download Titanium Backup but I can not download SwiftKey X which I paid for even though it IS compatable.
Can anybody help? I need a way to get apps that are compatible to the photon like swiftkey x onto my photon and the ability to keep them UPDATED. What I do not want is a way to keep them backed up, I already have that. I will switch phone brands if I need to but I absolutely require a phone or a fix for this phone on which this problem does not exist. Otherwise, it's useless to me as apps are updated often sometimes and I want those updates without running onto the net and asking people to please post an apk. Please reply if you have a solution. I am going to scream if I see that banner that says this app is not compatable with your phone again when market.android.com will send it to my older photon (which does not exist by the way. The market just recognizes my photon as a second photon after an update I did from the developer forums). Grrr, don't even want my photon now that the droid razor is out.
have you tried going into manage applications and clearing the data and cache from market. I had some problems with apps that were bought on both amazon and google and this allowed the apps to update from google.
Yes. I have cleared data from the market under manage applications. This does not do it. There are still apps that the android market refuses to let me install. Any such apps do not have an install or download button. Instead, there is just that banner on the very top that says "Your device is not compatible with this item." for many apps ever since I installed one of the updates and since then, I have 2 Photons listed when I look online. One of them, the android market will send these "incompatible apps" to and the other, it won't. Unfortunately, the device that android market will send the apps to is the same device as the one that the market sees as incompatible. It's like after one of the updates, the market reregistered my phone as a different phone. Same thing happened with my Iconia tab.
Does anybody have any ideas?
enigmatl said:
Does anybody have any ideas?
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You try going online and deleting the phones from your google account then log back into the app market and download a simple app so it can register
I've tried. As far as I know, you can't delete devices from your account on the market. You can only hide them from showing up on the menus. But yes, I've done that. It doesn't help.
never mind, i see now'
So is there anything that can be done?
First of all what ROM are you on, what mods(build.prop), and have you wiped google services data?
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found this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388070
balinger16 said:
found this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388070
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Oh thank you thank you thank you! (and thank clicked as well!) It was awesome of you to find that. Just to reiterate in case somebody else finds themselves having the same problem, to reiterate so it might come up in a google search for someone:
If you have a Motorola Photon (or many other phones), and over time, you notice that something isn't right with the market and some apps that you always ran are suddenly not compatible any more and perhaps the Android market sees you having several phones, if you changed your screen density with a program such as LCD Density Changer, the android market now will see you coming in with a different phone. For example, according to the Android market, I have a Moto Photon with a density of 240 and a Moto Photon with a density of 280. Perhaps because of the criteria that some app makers chose, some of their apps (like Messagease for instance) may be compatible with a Photon with a density of 240 but not a Photon with the density of 280 (even though they do in fact work just fine).
So, the solution is this. Change your density if you like. But, to get those programs that may become "incompatible", switch the density back to the way that it was out of the box.
Thank you very much for finding this information! It helped a lot!
Glad to help
I've been having this issue ever since the creators update (RS2) came out, even in the early insider builds.
When I select 'Check for updates' the phone seems to go away and check, but comes back with nothing. Even though I know there is an update. If I manually search for the app listing, it states there is an update and starts the process of updating it.
What I want to know is does anyone have the latest store appx file and is it possible to remove the store app using the Interop Tool so I can clear the cache and re-install it?
Thought I would give this ago as I'm not getting any answers in the feedback hub or MS's own forum.
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I've been having this issue ever since the creators update (RS2) came out, even in the early insider builds.
When I select 'Check for updates' the phone seems to go away and check, but comes back with nothing. Even though I know there is an update. If I manually search for the app listing, it states there is an update and starts the process of updating it.
What I want to know is does anyone have the latest store appx file and is it possible to remove the store app using the Interop Tool so I can clear the cache and re-install it?
Thought I would give this ago as I'm not getting any answers in the feedback hub or MS's own forum.
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Same issue.
I eventually solved this by uninstalling the Office 365 Admin app.
Not sure why this app would cause this, but all worked again afterwards. Since left W10M for iPhone.
Can anyone help me with this?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/windows-10/general/win10-store-problem-code0x800413a0-t3694112
Finally, my Lumia 950 can auto-update apps!
tony_72000 said:
I eventually solved this by uninstalling the Office 365 Admin app.
Not sure why this app would cause this, but all worked again afterwards. Since left W10M for iPhone.
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Seriously, thank you. I know this is an old thread but I've been trying to no avail to figure out this issue for two years, and have been resorting to updating via opening the store page for each and every app. One fix I attempted was to get the Store app itself to update, which made it worse because it would no longer update apps when going to the app page in the store anymore!
Was about to attempt downgrading the store, but searched and somehow found this post, and shortly after uninstalling it and tapping "Get updates" all the app updates started rolling in! I guess that also explains why it seems nobody else has this issue.
Since the latest T Mobile update , I cannot get any of my apps on the play store to update .
Any advice? Cheers.
Edit. I had to turn WiFi on and off a few times and restart Google play app. All good now.
This is interesting. I've noticed the sharp decline in updates that I normally see...which has been at least 1 or 2 apps every day/other day. Since the update, I haven't been getting any updates. I found it rather odd, but didn't think too much about it....I thought maybe devs were taking some time off for the holidays and not pushing out updates.
Subscribing.
Google Lens is already on the phone, but there's still the Google Lens app in the store that you can install. There's also GPay already on the phone, but some apps tell me to install Google Pay from the store.
Why? Does having double the apps screw with anything in the long run?
Maybe updates? I would go with the factory load versions unless they don't work well.
For Gpay, the one on the phone is the old version. They are pushing everyone to upgrade to the new version, that is the one in the store.
I don't use Gpay. The worst that will likely to happen if you don't upgrade is eventually it will stop working. You could get into issues with Playstore which demands updating. Playstore is so on my bad side, I rarely use it anymore.
I use the factory load versions for most of the Google apps especially Gmail and Gmaps as the update's UI's* sucked. Some of the Google system apps are factory load too because the update caused issues like excessive battery consumption*. So it is after 2 years, current load is over 1.5 yo, still fast, stable and user friendly.
You should experiment to see what works best for you. Just be aware that updates (especially firmware) can break just as easily as they can fix devices.
*Samsung seems to modify these and many times the factory load version works best. Or perhaps it's just the oldest version before Google screwed them up more
I installed the Google Assistant app just so I could add it as an icon to my home screen in Nova Launcher.
It's for people who root and want specific apps installed without installing the background/integration stuff.